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Better is the ReadIris Pro optical-character-recognition software, which converts a scanned letter or magazine article into editable text onscreen. It's fast and simple to use, and the only text it had trouble deciphering was newspaper print...
...Reagan letters illuminate so much more than the man and the influences that shaped his life. They give notice that letter writing is a dying art, succumbing to the modern-day requisite for immediacy, as reflected in the increasing use of e-mail and instant messaging. Our written communications have lost a quality of intimacy that makes the anticipation of replies to our letters agonizing and exquisite. Where will future historians and biographers find the primary source material to gain insight into their subjects? Modern technology has provided much that is indispensable, but it has also stripped our correspondence...
Thirty-six members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to President George W. Bush Thursday, urging him to advocate the release of jailed dissident Yang Jianli in a meeting with the president of China during his current Asian tour...
...letter, spearheaded by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., maintains that “the length and degree of punishment” inflicted on Jianli “has already far exceeded his transgression...
Christina X. Fu, Jianli’s wife and a Harvard Medical School researcher, has organized letter-writing campaigns and lobbied local and national officials on her husband’s behalf...